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Note that Switzerland refuses to join the EU, lets not pretend that unfettered immigration that comes with the EU isn't one reason why.

They are part of the Common Market with full workforce mobility with every other member nation of the Common Market. Biggest group of immigrants are Germans though.
But saying they aren't joining due to immigration is hilarious.

Before anyone asks: they also pay a lot for the privilege.

Tapapapatalk

Alistair's a dumb fuck, non shocker (Alistair, bringing up Switzerland's WWII history while ignoring your own fucking country's history is a joke). Switzerland has the highest percentage of foreigners of any country in Europe, around 24%. There are fuckloads of immigrants and refugees from places like Sri Lanka. Switzerland is a part of the Schengen, i.e. which means you can live and work here if you're part of the EU. The Swiss don't want that, unsurprisingly ("Furrinners goan steal mah shit"), but that's part of being part of the EU common market, and if the rural fucksticks here, in common with rural fucksticks everywhere, weren't as fucking dumb as they are, they'd actually see that they get far more from the deal than they pay. Man, this country is fucking rich. Not me, I'm a poor fag who lives in what can readily be considered poverty for this country, but considering my 22 year history of severe mental illness, I'm really not doing badly at all. I fucking shudder to think what would have happened to me in the good old US of fucking A.

But he's right at least in that you can't compare Switzerland to the US. But, we can compare ourselves to places like Holland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Ireland etc, and we do fairly ok. We could compare ourselves to places like Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Liberia, Ivory Coast etc and then we do really well.

Also, re diversity, Alistair, you fucking moron. This country has four official languages and just about everyone speaks some English. How many do you speak?

Alistair's a dumb fuck, non shocker (Alistair, bringing up Switzerland's WWII history while ignoring your own fucking country's history is a joke).

Funny, no one seems to be calling you out for whataboutism.

Guess thats a selective criticism here, eh?

Switzerland has the highest percentage of foreigners of any country in Europe, around 24%. There are fuckloads of immigrants and refugees from places like Sri Lanka. Switzerland is a part of the Schengen, i.e. which means you can live and work here if you're part of the EU. The Swiss don't want that, unsurprisingly ("Furrinners goan steal mah shit"), but that's part of being part of the EU common market, and if the rural fucksticks here, in common with rural fucksticks everywhere, weren't as fucking dumb as they are, they'd actually see that they get far more from the deal than they pay.

Little angry and defensive, eh?

Lets look at that 24% shall we? The vast majority of those "foreigners" are your neighboring EU States, Italy, France and Germany. So generally, white and Christian.

When diversity is discussed in the United States, the term is not generally used to describe having 4 flavors of slightly different white christian European peoples.

You have, if Wikipedia and their sources can be trusted, something like 200k people from Africa and Asia. Out of your 8+ million. The rest are Euros, Brits, Meric'ans and Aussies.

There is no need to get angry Bomby, civility works far better than anger at making points.

Man, this country is fucking rich. Not me, I'm a poor fag who lives in what can readily be considered poverty for this country, but considering my 22 year history of severe mental illness, I'm really not doing badly at all. I fucking shudder to think what would have happened to me in the good old US of fucking A.

An interesting question. I think you'd likely have done better than you might think. You may suffer from mental illness, but you're also intelligent (clearly) and functional (it seems), if a bit quick to anger.

But if you couldn't work, you'd likely do poorly here, yes. Hence....

But he's right at least in that you can't compare Switzerland to the US.

That's not accurate at all, you can and should compare different nations, even of vastly different sizes (like Switzerland vs say, New York City). You just should factor in that a nation of 8 million may (or may not) be the same as a nation of 350 million in some ways.

And be assured, there are a number of things the Swiss do better than the U.S. does. Those things are very much worthy of dicussion, but in that discussion we should not ignore differences that may make it easier or harder to do it the "swiss way" in a larger or more diverse place.

But, we can compare ourselves to places like Holland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Ireland etc, and we do fairly ok. We could compare ourselves to places like Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Liberia, Ivory Coast etc and then we do really well.

Who said Switzerland wasn't doing good? You seem a mighty sensitive mate. Relax, pretty much everyone thinks Switzerland is a great place.

Also, re diversity, Alistair, you fucking moron. This country has four official languages and just about everyone speaks some English. How many do you speak?

Covered above re: diversity. As to what I speak, it's American English and just enough Spanish to get by here and there.

Lets look at that 24% shall we? The vast majority of those "foreigners" are your neighboring EU States, Italy, France and Germany. So generally, white and Christian.

When diversity is discussed in the United States, the term is not generally used to describe having 4 flavors of slightly different white christian European peoples.

You have, if Wikipedia and their sources can be trusted, something like 200k people from Africa and Asia. Out of your 8+ million. The rest are Euros, Brits, Meric'ans and Aussies.

There is no need to get angry Bomby, civility works far better than anger at making points.

Well lets go to Sweden then we have close to same amount of Guns as Switzerland (21/100 people, swizerland has 24,5 and USA has a staggering 101 WTF...)

Immigration
Main article: Immigration to Sweden
COB data Sweden.PNG

As of 2016, Statistics Sweden reported that around 2,320,000 or 23.2% of the inhabitants of Sweden were from a foreign background: that is, each such person either had been born abroad or had been born in Sweden to two parents who themselves had both been born abroad.[20] Also taking into account people with only one parent born abroad, this number increases to almost a third in 2016.[21]
Demographics

According to Eurostat, in 2010, there were 1.33 million foreign-born residents in Sweden, corresponding to 14.3% of the total population. Of these, 859,000 (64.3%) were born outside the EU and 477,000 (35.7%) were born in another EU Member State.[22][23]

The twenty largest groups of foreign-born persons in the Swedish civil registry in 2016 were:[24]

I think we might have separated Bosnia from the rest of the Yugoslav places. At the time the ones in charge had no clue what was going on down there took a couple murders and fires before we stopped putting Serbs and Bosniaks in the same refugee apartments.

Also if you read on if you count the single households its more like 33% (1/3).

Lets look at that 24% shall we? The vast majority of those "foreigners" are your neighboring EU States, Italy, France and Germany. So generally, white and Christian.

When diversity is discussed in the United States, the term is not generally used to describe having 4 flavors of slightly different white christian European peoples.

You have, if Wikipedia and their sources can be trusted, something like 200k people from Africa and Asia. Out of your 8+ million. The rest are Euros, Brits, Meric'ans and Aussies.

There is no need to get angry Bomby, civility works far better than anger at making points.

Well lets go to Sweden then we have close to same amount of Guns as Switzerland (21/100 people, swizerland has 24,5 and USA has a staggering 101 WTF...)

Immigration
Main article: Immigration to Sweden
COB data Sweden.PNG

As of 2016, Statistics Sweden reported that around 2,320,000 or 23.2% of the inhabitants of Sweden were from a foreign background: that is, each such person either had been born abroad or had been born in Sweden to two parents who themselves had both been born abroad.[20] Also taking into account people with only one parent born abroad, this number increases to almost a third in 2016.[21]
Demographics

According to Eurostat, in 2010, there were 1.33 million foreign-born residents in Sweden, corresponding to 14.3% of the total population. Of these, 859,000 (64.3%) were born outside the EU and 477,000 (35.7%) were born in another EU Member State.[22][23]

The twenty largest groups of foreign-born persons in the Swedish civil registry in 2016 were:[24]

Lets look at that 24% shall we? The vast majority of those "foreigners" are your neighboring EU States, Italy, France and Germany. So generally, white and Christian.

When diversity is discussed in the United States, the term is not generally used to describe having 4 flavors of slightly different white christian European peoples.

You have, if Wikipedia and their sources can be trusted, something like 200k people from Africa and Asia. Out of your 8+ million. The rest are Euros, Brits, Meric'ans and Aussies.

There is no need to get angry Bomby, civility works far better than anger at making points.

Well lets go to Sweden then we have close to same amount of Guns as Switzerland (21/100 people, swizerland has 24,5 and USA has a staggering 101 WTF...)

Immigration
Main article: Immigration to Sweden
COB data Sweden.PNG

As of 2016, Statistics Sweden reported that around 2,320,000 or 23.2% of the inhabitants of Sweden were from a foreign background: that is, each such person either had been born abroad or had been born in Sweden to two parents who themselves had both been born abroad.[20] Also taking into account people with only one parent born abroad, this number increases to almost a third in 2016.[21]
Demographics

According to Eurostat, in 2010, there were 1.33 million foreign-born residents in Sweden, corresponding to 14.3% of the total population. Of these, 859,000 (64.3%) were born outside the EU and 477,000 (35.7%) were born in another EU Member State.[22][23]

The twenty largest groups of foreign-born persons in the Swedish civil registry in 2016 were:[24]

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